Literary landmarks of Boston : a visitor's guide to points of literary interest in and about Boston . little changed since Hawthornes 1808 to 1818, and later on, especially in the thirties, he livedat 10 1/2-12 Herbert Street, in the rear of his birthplace. Thishouse belonged to his maternal ancestors, the Mannings, and wasbuilt about 1790. In the southwest corner of the third story, bestseen from Union Street, is the room under the eaves where famewas won, for here he wrote the first volume of the Twice ToldTales, and later completed the Mosses from an Old 1828-1832 he lived
Literary landmarks of Boston : a visitor's guide to points of literary interest in and about Boston . little changed since Hawthornes 1808 to 1818, and later on, especially in the thirties, he livedat 10 1/2-12 Herbert Street, in the rear of his birthplace. Thishouse belonged to his maternal ancestors, the Mannings, and wasbuilt about 1790. In the southwest corner of the third story, bestseen from Union Street, is the room under the eaves where famewas won, for here he wrote the first volume of the Twice ToldTales, and later completed the Mosses from an Old 1828-1832 he lived at 26 Dearborn Street, now opposite its origi-nal site. After his marriage and return to Salem in 1846, he livedfor sixteen months at 18 Chestnut Street, and then till 1849 ^^ ^4 SALEM 49 Mall Street. His study, where he wrote the Snow ImaKe andScarlet Letter, is the front room of the third story. No. 53 Char-ter Street, called the Dr. Grimshawe house, was the home whereSophia Peabody lived when Hawthorne sought her as his wife. Itborders on one side of the Charter Street Cemetery, the oldest in. OF NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE SALEM Salem, where are buried the witch-judge, Colonel John Hathorne,an ancestor of Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Nathaniel, brother of thefamous Cotton Mather, who died at nineteen years of age of a pleth-ora of erudition. The House of the Seven Gables by popular butunverified tradition is 54 Turner Street. In the southwest frontroom of the Custom House (Derby Street), now modernized, Haw-thorne discharged his ofBcial duties as Surveyor of the Port. Inthis building were ins[)ired the immortal Scarlet Letter and itshardly less famous introduction. See also Concord. Rev. William Bentley (1759-1819), theologian, politician, andlinguist lived at 106 Essex Street. His diary in four volumes is aclassic on Salem history of his period. William Hickling Prescott (1796-1859), born in the Joseph Pea-body mansion (pictures of it arc in the T--ssex Institute), on t
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